| Noun | 1. | domain - a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" |
| 2. | domain - territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" | |
| 3. | domain - the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | |
| 4. | domain - people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" Synonyms: world | |
| 5. | domain - a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" |
DOMAIN. It signifies sometimes, dominion, territory governed - sometimes,
possession, estate - and sometimes, land about the mansion house of a lord.
By domain is also understood the right to dispose at our pleasure of what
belongs to us.
2. A distinction, has been made between property and domain. The former
is said to be that quality which is conceived to be in the thing itself,
considered as belonging to such or such person, exclusively of all others.
By the latter is understood that right which the owner has of disposing of
the thing. Hence domain and property are said to be correlative terms; the
one is the active right to dispose, the other a passive quality which
follows the thing, and places it at the disposition of the owner. 3 Toull.
n. 8 3. But this distinction is too subtle for practical use. Puff. Droit de
la Nature et des Gens, loi 4, c. 4, Sec. 2. Vide 1 B1. Com. 105, 106; 1
Bouv. Inst. n. 456; Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Domat, h.t.; 1 Hill. Ab. 24;
2 Hill. Ab. 237; and Demesne as Of fee; Property; Things.
| 1. | (mathematics) | domain - In the theory of functions, the set of
argument values for which a function is defined. See domain theory. | |
| 2. | (networking) | domain - A group of computers whose hostnames share a
common suffix, the "domain name". The last component of this
is the top-level domain. See administrative domain, Domain Name System, fully qualified domain name. | |
| 3. | domain - Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network. | ||
| 4. | (programming) | domain - A specific phase of the software life cycle in which a developer works. Domains define developers' and users' areas of responsibility and the scope of possible relationships between products. | |
| 5. | domain - The subject or market in which a piece of software is designed to work. |